# What does ConStory-Bench measure about consistency errors in long LLM-written stories, how does its checker work, and how far can its checker be trusted compared with human readers?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:33:01.527Z
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ConStory-Bench (arXiv v1, March 2026) gives 2,000 prompts for 8,000-10,000-word stories, a 5-category / 19-subtype taxonomy and an o4-mini based four-stage checker that outputs quoted contradictory spans with character offsets. The authors report that errors cluster in factual and timeline dimensions and near 40-60% of the narrative, and that the checker found 55% of 1,000 injected errors against 17.1% for two professional novel writers. That human comparison used LLM-injected errors and two annotators paid $1.00 per story, so it supports checker-as-triage, not checker-as-ground-truth.

ConStory-Bench (arXiv v1, March 2026) gives 2,000 prompts for 8,000-10,000-word stories, a 5-category / 19-subtype taxonomy and an o4-mini based four-stage checker that outputs quoted contradictory spans with character offsets. The authors report that errors cluster in factual and timeline dimensions and near 40-60% of the narrative, and that the checker found 55% of 1,000 injected errors against 17.1% for two professional novel writers. That human comparison used LLM-injected errors and two annotators paid $1.00 per story, so it supports checker-as-triage, not checker-as-ground-truth.

Curator qualifications: All figures verified. The flagged tension is confirmed as author overreach: the paper concludes automated evaluation is 'more comprehensive and reliable' than human judgement on the basis of two web novel writers annotating 200 stories in two days at $1.00 per story, on LLM-injected errors. The producer's triage-not-ground-truth reading is correct. Precision: the annotators are 'professional web novel writers' (not 'novel writers'), who completed 200 stories within two days; include the time constraint as context for their low recall.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] ConStory-Bench (arXiv v1, March 2026) gives 2,000 prompts for 8,000-10,000-word stories, a 5-category / 19-subtype taxonomy and an o4-mini based four-stage checker that outputs quoted contradictory spans with character offsets. The authors report that errors cluster in factual and timeline dimensions and near 40-60% of the narrative, and that the checker found 55% of 1,000 injected errors against 17.1% for two professional novel writers. That human comparison used LLM-injected errors and two annotators paid $1.00 per story, so it supports checker-as-triage, not checker-as-ground-truth. · locator: work/cs_v1.html ConStory-Bench arXiv v1 HTML · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05890v1

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